as in laggard
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Recent Examples of latecomer
There are too many latecomers who need to be punished.
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Alexis Christoforous, ABC News, 25 Feb. 2025
In those days, even small neighborhood theaters employed uniformed ushers to guide latecomers to their seats with a flashlight, patrol the aisles, and handle obstreperous customers.
—Thomas Doherty, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Dec. 2024
Zoom out: The fracture was familiar to anyone who's seen a movement expand — early adopters criticizing the latecomers for bringing different ideas.
—Zachary Basu, Axios, 26 Dec. 2024
Should the host have ordered more food for the latecomers, especially since the other parents were eating food meant for the children?
—Judith Martin, Sun Sentinel, 8 Jan. 2025
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Alexis Christoforous, ABC News, 25 Feb. 2025
In those days, even small neighborhood theaters employed uniformed ushers to guide latecomers to their seats with a flashlight, patrol the aisles, and handle obstreperous customers.
—Thomas Doherty, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Dec. 2024
Zoom out: The fracture was familiar to anyone who's seen a movement expand — early adopters criticizing the latecomers for bringing different ideas.
—Zachary Basu, Axios, 26 Dec. 2024
Should the host have ordered more food for the latecomers, especially since the other parents were eating food meant for the children?
—Judith Martin, Sun Sentinel, 8 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for latecomer
Noun
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The city’s ongoing population loss prior to migrant population growth was even more costly, a symptom of lost confidence in Chicago’s future and a laggard economy.—
The Editorial Board,
Chicago Tribune,
16 May 2025
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Mahmood Khan, a professor of hospitality and tourism at Virginia Tech, says he’s seen a significant uptick in the number of laggards.—
Christopher Elliott, King Features Syndicate,
Mercury News,
28 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Retired or not, the world’s greatest quarterback does not have the luxury to indulge in sequential action—one thing at a time is for slowpokes and losers.—
Vinson Cunningham,
The New Yorker,
25 Jan. 2025
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One group of 15 female rats, brighter in color than the rest, kept zooming past the others to make it into the houses first, making the rest of their furry colleagues look like slowpokes.—
Laura Bradley,
Vulture,
17 Jan. 2025
Noun
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These capuchins have figured out how to use stones to crack open mollusks, snails and other edible treats that have hard shells.—
Elizabeth Landau,
New York Times,
19 May 2025
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Some of the snails the DOC cares for are around 25 to 30 years old, the release said.—
Melina Khan,
USA Today,
12 May 2025
Noun
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Update your website's robots.txt file to explicitly allow access to legitimate AI crawlers like OpenAI's GPTBot and Google's AI systems, while still blocking problematic scrapers.—
John Werner,
Forbes.com,
4 May 2025
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Brands and retailers’ offerings are ingested by OpenAI’s technology so long as they aren’t opted out of its search crawler, OAI-SearchBot.—
Meghan Hall,
Sourcing Journal,
28 Apr. 2025
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“Latecomer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/latecomer. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.
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